Florida State’s Michael Snaer is an accomplished shutdown defender, and he expanded his offensive game last year. For his senior season, he says he’s cleared out space for the school’s first-ever ACC championship and perhaps a conference player of the year award.

“I can’t be guarded,” Snaer told ESPN this week. “I’ve been believing in myself and now, I’m at a point now, I feel like if I’m not the best, I’m one of the best two-guards in the country

“I strongly feel that way. I’ve been up against all the guys at (LeBron’s camp), where you see all the guys at your position. I really feel that, in my mind, if I’m not the best, I’m one of the best.”

Snaer averaged 14 points and hit 40.4 percent of 3-point attempts in his junior season as the Seminoles finished 25-10 and two games behind North Carolina in the ACC. He hit two game-winning buzzer-beating shots last season but was only 4-of-11 from the field as FSU was upset by Cincinnati in the NCAA Tournament’s Round of 32.

FSU lost six seniors from last year’s club, including center Bernard James, but has six new recruits, and Snaer is better than ever and ready to lead the young Seminoles.

“(At LeBron’s camp), I think we did one-on-one drills one time. I just straight destroyed people,” Snaer told ESPN. “So I mean, at that moment, I just knew, in my opinion, I’m the best guard in the country, the best 2-guard in the country, in my opinion.

“Any guy would say that of course. But, like I said, you ask any of the guys that were down there [in] that drill with me and who laced up and went against me -- I can give you references if you want -- but they’ll tell you, ‘Yeah, I couldn’t guard him and nobody down there could.’ And that’s the bottom line.”